Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:25:20 GMT | From | tip-bot for Venkatesh Pallipadi <> | Subject | [tip:sched/core] sched: Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification |
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Commit-ID: 6cdd5199daf0cb7b0fcc8dca941af08492612887 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6cdd5199daf0cb7b0fcc8dca941af08492612887 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> AuthorDate: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:03:18 -0700 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CommitDate: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:52:22 +0200
sched: Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification
To account softirq time cleanly in scheduler, we need to identify whether softirq is invoked in ksoftirqd context or softirq at hardirq tail context. Add PF_KSOFTIRQD for that purpose.
As all PF flag bits are currently taken, create space by moving one of the infrequently used bits (PF_THREAD_BOUND) down in task_struct to be along with some other state fields.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-4-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> --- include/linux/sched.h | 1 + kernel/softirq.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 8744e50..aca0ce6 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1682,6 +1682,7 @@ extern void thread_group_times(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t *ut, cputime_t * /* * Per process flags */ +#define PF_KSOFTIRQD 0x00000001 /* I am ksoftirqd */ #define PF_STARTING 0x00000002 /* being created */ #define PF_EXITING 0x00000004 /* getting shut down */ #define PF_EXITPIDONE 0x00000008 /* pi exit done on shut down */ diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c index 988dfbe..267f7b7 100644 --- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -713,6 +713,7 @@ static int run_ksoftirqd(void * __bind_cpu) { set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); + current->flags |= PF_KSOFTIRQD; while (!kthread_should_stop()) { preempt_disable(); if (!local_softirq_pending()) {
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